Example sentences of "[is] [adv] for [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 2 | If he 's in for working with us on the next single then it might happen . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But at NT developer 's conferences we 're told that Posix is only for winning Government bids , and we should n't use it ’ . |
| 4 | He 's inside for having slit a man 's throat . |
| 5 | No , this is this is just for changing the stations . |
| 6 | I do n't know how much machine time they would need on a daily basis , but if it 's just for updating files , I ca n't imagine it being very extensive . |
| 7 | This lady 's not for shouting down . ’ |
| 8 | The Lady 's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry was to be directed by John Gielgud at the Globe in May 1949 and Richard auditioned for the ‘ orphaned clerk ’ . |
| 9 | He was shaking with nerves when he did the most critical audition of his career — for John Gielgud and The Lady 's Not For Burning — and yet he forced himself through it . |
| 10 | He had been across to New York with The Lady 's Not For Burning , just before the Stratford season . |
| 11 | At the 1 980 Tory Party Conference she pronounced stubbornly that ‘ the lady 's not for turning ’ . |
| 12 | Statements such as ‘ The Lady 's not for turning ’ and ‘ Are we going to go back ? |
| 13 | ‘ Unfortunately , just like Mrs Thatcher , he 's not for turning , which is the biggest problem of all . |
| 14 | THE campaign for keeping open Rosyth Dockyard is all very laudable as long as it 's not for servicing nuclear submarines . |
| 15 | She 's not for marrying , this one . ’ |
| 16 | The lady 's not for returning |
| 17 | As my concern is more for recording the natural aspects of the urban environment and the accidental results of decay and neglect , I choose a palette of natural , earthy colours . |
| 18 | As my concern is more for recording the natural aspects of the urban environment and the accidental results of decay and neglect , I choose a palette of natural , earthy colours . |
| 19 | Under dangerous conditions , his chief concern is for the welfare of the film stock and equipment , whereas mine is more for keeping us both alive … |
| 20 | it 's not worth , supposed to be a freezer , it 's mainly for storing frozen food , but you can freeze small amounts in it . |
| 21 | This is because the output logogen system is solely for producing words , and the input logogen systems can only recognise words — a spoken or printed non-word would not cause an input logogen to respond , and hence non-words can not enter the mental lexicon at all . |
| 22 | It would do yes , but w , wo , imagine that they 're there because the team 's now for solving problems . |
| 23 | Music is n't for keeping and treasuring , it 's for cutting up and feeding into a computer . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , the money is n't for racing anyway , ’ he said . |
| 25 | What other reason is there for growing fresh vegetables and flowers near to large cities ? |
| 26 | What alternative framework is there for analysing teaching quality ? |
| 27 | They were , first , practical measures such as speed humps to make drivers aware of their speed and thus slow their vehicles ; second , a designed environment that conveys to the driver the fact that the area is one whose function is principally for living not travelling , with a consequent imparted feeling that awareness of soft traffic is imperative ; third , a legal change in priority , so that all occupants of the street space are equal ; and fourth , lest drivers are encouraged to view the new street layout as a challenge to driving skill rather than an encouragement of self-restraint and caution , a new regulation on car speeds . |
| 28 | If in Holy Scripture there are found some injunctions forbidding the infliction of some cruelty towards brute animals … this is either for removing a man 's mind from exercising cruelty towards other men … or because the injury inflicted on animals turns to a temporal loss for some man … |
| 29 | He 's doolally for putting up with it is n't he ? |
| 30 | For example , there may be a grant which is specifically for building a capital asset . |